Word: travelers
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Haibo credits his ease adjusting to his background growing up in an academic milieu where travel abroad was common...
There are also more personal concerns. Computer networks allow information to be accessed, accumulated and correlated in ways that threaten privacy as never before. Unseen eyes (of your boss, your neighbor, thousands of marketers) can track what you buy, the things you read and write, where you travel and whom you call. Your kids can download pornographic pictures and chat with strangers...
...with fatherhood. "He was a wonderful father," recalls his older daughter. Says his younger: "Being Andy Grove's child isn't for the faint of heart. But if you can roll with it, it's great." Case in point: Grove always worked to include the kids in his business travel. But he made the girls write reports on the countries they were visiting: Italy, Spain, England. A nickel a page. "That's how we'd get our spending money," recalls a daughter. "Luckily, my grandparents would kick in a little more." Grove's parents moved...
...Flaherty gets better with each hearing. And how many musicals have the audience fighting off tears before the end of the first act? The show doesn't arrive on Broadway until January, but it's hard to see how the Los Angeles production--which opened in June and will travel to Vancouver and Chicago in 1998--could be improved...
...behind the distant snowcaps. It struck me that the man has lived out a kind of archetypal destiny of our times: a boy born in a peasant village in a world that had scarcely seen a wheel has ended up confronting the great forces of the day--exile, global travel and, especially, the mass media; and a man from a culture known as the "Forbidden Kingdom" now faces machine guns on the one hand and Chinese discos around the Potala Palace on the other. While Tibet is eroded in its homeland, it threatens to be commodified--or turned into...